There’s news over at the Site Meter blog today that the free website statistics package has added tracking of outbound links to it’s offering.
The free version of their service will now track the last 100 URLs that your readers leave your blog to visit if you have the javascript version of their tracker installed on your blog.
Not included in the tracking are clicks on AdSense ads (or most other advertising) and clicks generated by javascript. It only tracks the last click of a reader on your site (ie if a reader clicks multiple links during their visit it only shows the last one).
They also say that it doesn’t track clicks by readers using certain browsers (including Safari). This might explain why it seems to only be giving me a URL for about 1 in 10 of my outbound links (see screenshot below).
This is a welcome addition to Site Meter which is going to make stats packages like MyBlogLog have to rethink their service – but I have to say that the implementation of it is not as good as the Performancing Metrics package that should be released in beta in the next week or so.
Found via Makovision
